Declaring Surveys/becoming self employed?

Olivia-Louise_2

I'm looking for some help.

How do you declare your earnings from surveys etc? I gather you have to register self employed?

I'm earning around £120/£150 a week on average most weeks but how many hours do I say etc? I'm so confused if anyone could help that would be great Thank you

ahomemadetouch

im not sure about registering as self employed tho i suppose technically you should, can i ask how your making that much money and how much time its taking you?

Olivia-Louise_2

ahomemadetouch wrote: »

im not sure about registering as self employed tho i suppose technically you should, can i ask how your making that much money and how much time its taking you?

It takes quite a few hours a day/night.

I use about 10 sites regular, making the most on Clixsense about 90/100$ a week

System

I think you can register online on the HMRC website, or call their helpline number :-) It's so long ago I can't remember how I registered, though I do remember it is better to do sooner rather than later. You may also need to pay NI on the income. I am not sure if you have to declare how many hours you are doing unless you are claiming tax credits or the like.

You are doing really well

Olivia-Louise_2

Anyone any idea?

System

Olivia-Louise wrote: »

I'm looking for some help.

How do you declare your earnings from surveys etc? I gather you have to register self employed?

I'm earning around £120/£150 a week on average most weeks but how many hours do I say etc? I'm so confused if anyone could help that would be great Thank you

You'll probably find a lot of people don't answer you with questions like this - because they're not bothering to register :rotfl:

I've copied most of this from another post I replied on, as I seem to be writing this out a lot here lately, so sorry if a little of it is off topic/irrelevant.

I declare my earnings. I am registered as self-employed and when I signed up on the HMRC website it asked me what exactly it was I did so I just said something along the lines of 'surveys, tasks, product trials and anything else I can find' which they accepted fine.

The tax system has been simplified now so you can claim a set amount of money depending on how many hours you spend working on such websites online.

Basically you have to state your total incomings, any expenses and anything you're claiming using the simplified tax system.

I pay voluntary national insurance contributions, around £2.65 per week I believe, as I want to be able to use maternity benefits when my husband and I have our children. Because I'm self employed I will receive a flat rate of around £130 a week, and can keep undertaking my work alongside this, which isn't something you can do when you take maternity leave from a normal employment job. I then receive a bill for any tax/NI due after filing the relevant year. The voluntary NI contributions I pay twice a year, as it isn't a big amount to find in one go. You can see online when payments are due but it's usually ages away from when you first start, so get saving!

I was told by HMRC when I phoned them that if you are completing surveys and such like on a 'commercial basis' then you need to declare. The example they used was that if you are a member of YouGov and receiving £50 a year then you don't need to worry. However if you are joining numerous websites to earn money from home then you do need to declare. I'm definitely doing it on a commercial basis so I declare. I keep track of my cashouts on a spreadsheet as well as any expenses incurred (new laptop for example) and then I claim £26 a month, a flat rate set by HMRC, for working more than 102 hours per month. You can find more information out here https://www.gov.uk/simpler-income-tax-simplified-expenses/overview

The information I'm providing here was provided direct via telephone calls to the self-assessment helpline, which is answered surprisingly fast when it isn't tax return time. If in doubt you can call them and speak to them directly, just take down a name and any dates and times that you called in and what they said. I found that a lot of what people said on here was just hearsay so I called them myself and then subsequently signed up as self-employed.

It actually isn't that much hassle to be self-employed these days. If you are just declaring £5000 or so a year it should be quite straight forward for you. I used to worry it was difficult but when I started making decent earnings I knew I wanted to give up my job and declare my earnings.

harvyedward

This post is very useful to me. I am a employee in a firm and doing part time self employed freelance jobs like ads posting, article writing, SEO works and so on. I am working nearly 5 hrs daily and earning. I have to register my income.

bpjames

You can declare as Freelancing income or may be you don't need to declare as it's not done in local system but better you register as Freelancing.

Olivia-Louise_2

Thank you Katy that's really helpful I have seen your comments before I was going to PM you but didn't want to offend you thank you

System

I wouldn't worry at least 20 people a week PM me here. I always reply If you've got anymore questions feel free to do so x

changeforbetter

Hi - Also a thread that is very useful for me too, thank you.

I've previously been employed, but moving more and more towards earning on a self-employed basis, mostly online now.

Can I ask anyone experienced with this:

Do you need to provide evidence for all your earnings in detail, or did you provide an overall sum/total? Especially tricky when there are different bits of earning etc.


Thanks for previous experiences.